2026 BWB Battle Of The Booze Tournament Sour Sixteen Preview

March 28, 2026·1 hr 15 min·6 clips

Bum Wine Bob kicks off the Sour 16 round of the 2026 Battle of the Booze tournament with Roadhouse and Kevin.

1. Bumming with Bobcat records a special Sour 16 tournament episode featuring Bobcat, co-host Roadhouse, and recurring guest Kevin, with the YouTube channel at 22,000 subscribers. 2. Bobcat is the primary host and founder of the Bumwine Bob brand; Roadhouse is the co-host known as Mr. Malt Liquor; Kevin is a tattoo artist and recurring guest who also just earned his second-degree black belt in MMA. 3. The episode serves as the official Sour 16 preview for the 2026 BWB Battle of the Booze tournament, a yearly competition in which viewers vote on their favourite budget beers across four brackets: malt liquor, malt beverages, bumwines, and regular beer. 4. Roadhouse opens with Tip Top Old Fashioned canned cocktails at 37% ABV in 100mL cans — given to him free by the ladies at his corner liquor store as distributor samples. 5. The Tip Top cans are compared in size to a 100mL medicine bottle; their first-sip reaction produces what Bobcat describes as York Peppermint Patty euphoria — a refreshing clarity despite no mint in the product. 6. Kevin rates the Tip Top as similar to sour green apple Jolly Rancher; Bobcat notes it is clearly 70-proof and immediately felt, unlike malt beverages that mask their alcohol. 7. Bobcat and Kevin announce they are officially BeatBox Beverages ambassadors after parting ways with Four Loco over what they describe as a lack of communication and unresponsive sponsorship management. 8. BeatBox Juicy Mango at 11.1% ABV and BeatBox Green Apple at 11.1% ABV are opened on air; both hosts rate them positively and note the brand has better ambassador engagement infrastructure than Four Loko. 9. Bobcat presents a surprise: he found MD 2020 Jungle Juice and Purple Drip canned cocktails at his local store while the brand's own website showed them unavailable within 100 miles, and purchased three of each at $2.99 / 15% ABV. 10. The MD 2020 new cans are noted for their WWE SmackDown sponsorship — the Mad Dog logo was spotted on the ring mat during a recent episode, which both Bobcat and Roadhouse find surreal given the brand's bumwine reputation. 11. Roadhouse found the new brown-bottle Colt 45 40-ounce in his local stores and picked up three; Bobcat's local stores have restocked tall boy Colt 45 cans but the 40-ounce brown bottles have not arrived in New Jersey. 12. The malt liquor Sour 16 bracket includes: Old English 800 vs King Cobra, and St. Ides vs Colt 45 — with both St. Ides and Colt 45 having made bottle design changes that provoked community debate. 13. The malt beverage bracket is dominated by Four Loko: Jackpot, USA, and Camo all advanced, with the single JOOSE survivor (Dragon Juice) eliminated by 211 Steel Reserve Spiked Cherry Slushy. 14. The bumwine bracket produced the episode's most emotional upsets: Night Train eliminated by MD 2020 Electric Melon, Orange Jubilee knocked out, and MD 2020 Gold beating MD 2020 Banana Red unexpectedly. 15. The surviving bumwine matchup — Thunderbird vs Wild Irish Rose Red — is described as the most authentically old-school confrontation in the tournament: two unadorned classic bumwines with no flavour gimmicks. 16. The regular beer bracket has Busch advancing, with Bobcat noting that for the first time he observed Busch 12-packs priced at $11.99 — a dollar less than Natural Light and Natty Ice 12-packs at $12.99 in the same store. 17. Miller High Life, a former 2020 champion, and Coors Banquet are both identified as the likely Sour 16 survivors from the beer bracket based on their following and the hosts' reasoning. 18. Kevin reveals he has just earned his second-degree black belt at JC MMA, formerly Premier MMA; his instructor was James Cox's last-ever black belt promotion before the school's transition. 19. The Brita filter liquor experiment — a social media trend claiming to remove burn from spirits — is discussed as a potential future podcast segment, framed as 'science.' 20. Best audience is budget beverage fans who follow tournament-style sports betting culture, malt liquor enthusiasts, and viewers of cheap booze review content; listeners expecting structured tasting notes or craft beverage commentary will not find it here.

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A loose bracket update that turns cheap-booze talk into easy company.

The bracket update gives the episode its spine, but the real draw is the loose, familiar banter as Bumwine Bob and Roadhouse catch everyone up on the Battle of the Boos.

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Catch the Sour 16 as Battle of the Boos hits round two with upsets, prices, and bracket chaos.

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